Speaker 1: Hey guys, we have a special bonus Christmas episode on
Speaker 1: the Stereo app today. Um, we're gonna do a little
Speaker 1: Q and A with our buddy Easton, and we have
Speaker 1: a your good friend Bethany Joy Lenz from Once were
Speaker 1: to come on and talk about some things and about
Speaker 1: all about her new albums, snow Can't Wait wind Down podcast, Well,
Speaker 1: wind Down Live on the Stereo app. Christmas Eat? Are
Speaker 1: you ready for Christmas Eve? Brew? I'm so excited. Eastern
Speaker 1: What are you about to do? What am I about
Speaker 1: to do for Christmas Eve? Oh? My goodness. Uh, the
Speaker 1: stockings are hung by the chimney with care. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw a dura flame log in the fireplace and
Speaker 1: watch a Christmas movie, maybe make a gingerbread house at
Speaker 1: a boy all the Christmas stuff. What's your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 1: My favorite Christmas movie is Gremlins. What that's a Christmas movie? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a Christmas movie. It's very if you watch it,
Speaker 1: it's very Christmas. Takes place on Christmas Eve, sand is
Speaker 1: all over the place, they're in the snow. Gremlins is
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. You're right, that's like a diet the
Speaker 1: die hard conversation exactly. I believe die Hard as a
Speaker 1: Christmas movie. I think the argument of die Hard is
Speaker 1: that it released in the summertime, and I don't know
Speaker 1: about Gremlins. I think Gremlins released around Christmas. But that's
Speaker 1: where the die Hard discourse comes in. That's that carries
Speaker 1: some weight that's understandable. Well, what do you guy? So
Speaker 1: we're just gonna hang out as a fan. We got
Speaker 1: the in laws in town, and so we have a
Speaker 1: tradition where we're able to open one present on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1: So what present are we gonna let the kids open? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I wrapped the presents so long ago that I don't
Speaker 1: remember what's in the presents. So I'm really I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll just go Emi MENI Moneymi, And we just want
Speaker 1: to grab a big one who knows so small and
Speaker 1: could be just as tricky. Well, this is fun. We're
Speaker 1: on you know, Live wind Down on the stereo app Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a good friend of your yours, Bethany
Speaker 1: joy Lynds from Wintry Hill. She's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: show later. Yeah, she has a new album out called Snow.
Speaker 1: It's so good. So if you want a good Christmas
Speaker 1: album to listen to, definitely give it a listen. Um,
Speaker 1: I just can't believe tomorrow's Christmas, Like we finally made
Speaker 1: it to Christmas time when we gonna take direct decorations
Speaker 1: down because I know like once the holiday is over,
Speaker 1: you just want to move on to the next The
Speaker 1: day after everything down, maybe like a few days later,
Speaker 1: but it has to be down before New Year's, Before
Speaker 1: New Year's. I know some people that like to keep
Speaker 1: their tree rips on New Year's down gone, get it gone?
Speaker 1: What about you Eastern you know, uh called last year.
Speaker 1: I think we left ours up until New Year's, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I like to say that
Speaker 1: we're going to take down the twenty six, but that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. We'll probably start taking down the outside
Speaker 1: stuff on the s and the tree probably around New
Speaker 1: Year's Like no, yeah, I feel like is a good?
Speaker 1: Is a good? Like in between? I know that a
Speaker 1: Swift song came out where she's like, we can leave
Speaker 1: the Christmas lights up till January, and I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a slippery slope. Go. Then it goes
Speaker 1: to February. Then March. Then you start justifying to leave
Speaker 1: him up all year exactly. Work smart, not hard. Hey,
Speaker 1: so I know we're going to do some Q and A.
Speaker 1: Uh this show. You've got some things lined up for us.
Speaker 1: I certainly do. I mean, these are some hard hitting
Speaker 1: questions you guys. Ready, let's do it all right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's do the first one here. Uh, what's your best
Speaker 1: advice for a newly engaged couple? Mm hmm, what honey? Um?
Speaker 1: I would just say, enjoy the newlywed phase because it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of fade. No, I mean, just enjoy, just
Speaker 1: enjoy the the time together and try not to rush
Speaker 1: and just yeah, I just enjoy the moment, enjoy the
Speaker 1: enjoy the feeling that you have with your partner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, just enjoy getting to know each other,
Speaker 1: like continuing to get to know each other, and that
Speaker 1: that doesn't stop for the rest of your relationship. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you continue to learn more about each other,
Speaker 1: I think you can find ways to keep the relationship
Speaker 1: and marriage interesting and fun. Yeah. I find people, uh,
Speaker 1: when they're getting age, they jumped pretty quickly into like
Speaker 1: wedding planning mode, even if they're not gonna get married
Speaker 1: right away, and that's a very until you have children.
Speaker 1: I think that might be the most stressful thing a
Speaker 1: couple does, like early in your relationship is playing the wedding.
Speaker 1: So I mean I always say, like, give yourself at
Speaker 1: least a couple of months of just like enjoying being
Speaker 1: engaged before you get into that, because there's plenty of
Speaker 1: time for all that stuff. But yeah, all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's how about this, how does Mike? How did Mike
Speaker 1: feel when you were on Dancing with the Stars, Janet?
Speaker 1: Did you watch? Um? Mike was in rehab and he
Speaker 1: did not watch. Um, I don't know if I watched
Speaker 1: at the end. And it's more so, you know, I
Speaker 1: was just sad that I couldn't be there throughout the
Speaker 1: whole journey with her because she did so well on
Speaker 1: it and I would have loved to have been there
Speaker 1: to support her all the way to the end into
Speaker 1: the final four. That's a's a supportive husband right there.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite attributes about each other? Um? I
Speaker 1: would say that Mike's a great dad. Um, he's really
Speaker 1: hands on, interactive, always you know, on the ground with them,
Speaker 1: and you know, just yeah, he's just he's one of
Speaker 1: the best dads. Um I know. UM. For me, it's
Speaker 1: Janna's just kind of relentlessness when it comes to to
Speaker 1: work and providing for the family because she's she inspires
Speaker 1: me to like to be creative and to think outside
Speaker 1: the box because she's always creating something or finding something
Speaker 1: to do, or finding ways to earn. And it's just
Speaker 1: it's motivating because you know, I'm come from a different background.
Speaker 1: It's very structured and what I did, so it's it's
Speaker 1: nice to kind of strengthen my create creativity muscles and
Speaker 1: and think outside the box. Right now, we're gonna turn
Speaker 1: it on turn this next question on its head. If
Speaker 1: you guys could swap places for a day, what's one
Speaker 1: thing you think the other person does that you think
Speaker 1: you could do so much better? Mm hmmm. We'd save
Speaker 1: that one more time. So, if you could swap places
Speaker 1: for a day, what's one thing you think you could do?
Speaker 1: One thing the other person does that you think you
Speaker 1: could do better. Mhm. So if I was Janna for
Speaker 1: the day, Yeah, what would I do as Janna? Like, Like,
Speaker 1: what's something that Janna does that you think you could
Speaker 1: do better? If you this is a high concept question
Speaker 1: if you inhabited her body for the day, so like
Speaker 1: Little Dickey style exactly, Um, oh what can I do?
Speaker 1: I think, Oh, man, you could relax better. I think
Speaker 1: I could. I would sing. And the reason I say that,
Speaker 1: we all know Janna has a beautiful voice, but I
Speaker 1: feel like if her voice is better than she even
Speaker 1: thinks it is. And so I'll go out there and
Speaker 1: just sing my ass off, all right, because you think
Speaker 1: you can sing better than me, because I hear you
Speaker 1: from my ears and know how good you are. You
Speaker 1: know that you that you hold back at times. So
Speaker 1: I'll go out there and just let loose. Mhm um, yep, good.
Speaker 1: I would probably say. I mean cleaning, you know, just
Speaker 1: like when he's like, I'll get the dishes and clean,
Speaker 1: but it's like he leaves like the one side of
Speaker 1: the counter like filthy with his like grease stains from
Speaker 1: like cooking. So I'm just like I just finished the
Speaker 1: job better. But the meal was amazing. It all right.
Speaker 1: We have some live questions I'm gonna get I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get this. What is one thing that you two have
Speaker 1: learned or discovered about each other that you didn't know
Speaker 1: before quarantine and COVID. Oh, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like we know each other pretty well. Mike.
Speaker 1: Why don't you start mm hmmm. Something we learned knew
Speaker 1: about each other that we didn't there before, man, Daniel,
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is not much changed for us
Speaker 1: because we're always together anyway. Yeah, I would say honestly,
Speaker 1: there was nothing new, just because we are always together
Speaker 1: anyways and do life together that we're pretty normal to
Speaker 1: this kind of working from home and being around each
Speaker 1: other environment. But good question, nonetheless, which one of you
Speaker 1: would win in the dance battle? Me? Okay, quick answer? Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say me, just because when we did take
Speaker 1: dance lessons, Mike was like falling over his feet. You're
Speaker 1: out of your mind. I was correcting you, okay, But
Speaker 1: you also didn't come in fourth place on Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars and half of the stuff that I didn't
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars just until they do couples All Stars. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How did you come up with kids names? Did you
Speaker 1: disagree on some names or agree on some names? And
Speaker 1: who had the finals? Say? Julie was always a name
Speaker 1: that I had for I had that name for a while,
Speaker 1: probably like twenty years yeah, um, and it was just
Speaker 1: always something so pretty and then he liked it right
Speaker 1: off the Yeah. And then our boy name. We had
Speaker 1: a few names. Um, I really my friend came up
Speaker 1: with Jason, and I really liked it. Mike wasn't a
Speaker 1: thousand percent sold on it in the very beginning, but
Speaker 1: I kept just pushing, like what it means, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Jay's and and then I once I was able
Speaker 1: to kind of bring in the middle name and he
Speaker 1: would have the same initials as his grandfather and great grandfather.
Speaker 1: That was the connection for me. I was like, boom done, Mike,
Speaker 1: do you feel left out because your name doesn't begin
Speaker 1: with the J? Good question? Easton. I told him he
Speaker 1: could change it if he wanted, you know, Eastern. My
Speaker 1: middle name is John, Um, so I could start going
Speaker 1: by John. You know, who's to say I can't um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, at times I do. It's like, hey, there's Janna,
Speaker 1: Jolie and Chase and Mike just there existing. But you
Speaker 1: stand out. You know, You're Yeah, you're different. You want
Speaker 1: to be different, that's coment. Have a great personality, all right,
Speaker 1: you see what are the questions you got over there? Okay,
Speaker 1: this one I saw this on the rundown, and I
Speaker 1: was really excited about it. Janna, I want to know
Speaker 1: what are the stories, What's what's the t behind the
Speaker 1: non Mike related songs you wrote? And you're saying, like whiskey,
Speaker 1: I got the boy, I won't give up. So why
Speaker 1: you Wanna is about my first relationship in Nashville that
Speaker 1: broke my heart. Um, so that song has always been
Speaker 1: about him. Um, I got the boys out, my high
Speaker 1: school sweetheart, Matthew. And then I mean most of my
Speaker 1: songs are about an act of kind of like the
Speaker 1: I'm the old Taylor Swift you know. Yeah, well, how
Speaker 1: this Taylor Swift is trying to be Jana Kramer? That's
Speaker 1: what I've always said. Uh oh, here's a here's a
Speaker 1: question from Mike. Are you having your vasectomy reversed? Nope, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not chance. If anything, we'll just do it a
Speaker 1: different way, all right, all right? So what what was
Speaker 1: the name you almost had? Like you guys, if you like,
Speaker 1: were you almost not Jana or not Mike? I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be Jessica or Ariel And I'm just glad,
Speaker 1: I mean, no, no hate to like Jessica or the
Speaker 1: Ariels out there, but um yeah or no, sorry, it
Speaker 1: was Jennifer and Ariel. Um. So last minute, my mom,
Speaker 1: you know, decided against Ariel, and I really appreciated it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I love arials out there. If there's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's you, you're a Disney princess. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that I could have, you know, lived up
Speaker 1: to being the Disney Mermaid. I was Michael from from
Speaker 1: Jumps Street, like no no exciting story behind it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was almost Maverick. I was gonna be Maverick until
Speaker 1: like the night before and then my dad was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I got a name. People, Starbucks will screw
Speaker 1: up even more than that. Let's do Easton. Let's sea.
Speaker 1: The fact that your dad was the one that last
Speaker 1: minute called off Maverick is very surprising, I know, right
Speaker 1: he like, honestly, someone is doing work at our house
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, my son's named Easton, and like
Speaker 1: that was it. They just called it that at the
Speaker 1: last minute. Your dad looks like a Maverick. He's like
Speaker 1: a bodybuilder, you know. He liked to joke with me
Speaker 1: that it was a top gun thing, but it was
Speaker 1: it was from a Western TV show. But again, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of glad I wasn't Maverick, I would have just
Speaker 1: gone by Rick probably Rick. Uh. We are live on
Speaker 1: the stereo app. This is a wind Down Live with
Speaker 1: Joanna Kramer and Michael Cosson. Hey, guys, have your kids
Speaker 1: ever walked in on you? Oh my gosh? No? Uh no,
Speaker 1: is there a gray area, Mike, It is a gray area.
Speaker 1: I think I think Jolie has like this quarantine. We're
Speaker 1: just like I go back and watch TV. We'll be
Speaker 1: out there in a minute, but not like fully walked in.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that happening. I'm gonna go with now. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: how do you guys? Comp reminds your differences in parenting? Fortunately,
Speaker 1: we don't really have that many. No. I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like there's times and like I might be a
Speaker 1: little harder and like Michael be like, hey, you know
Speaker 1: either like check yourself and vice versa, where like He'll
Speaker 1: be like I have a stronger reaction and I'll be like, okay,
Speaker 1: like we'll we'll just like tag. Um. But I feel
Speaker 1: like we parents pretty much the same way. Um. I
Speaker 1: might be a little bit more sensitive to like aggressiveness,
Speaker 1: but um, I think we pretty much parents the same way.
Speaker 1: What do you think has been This is a question
Speaker 1: for me. What do you think has been the biggest challenge,
Speaker 1: like the biggest difference you guys have had in parenting.
Speaker 1: Like I know there was a last year there was
Speaker 1: some difference on like where to go for the holidays,
Speaker 1: but like, has there been a bigger hurdle other than that? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I think the only foreseeable thing is, you know, this
Speaker 1: year hasn't really been a big issue because of the
Speaker 1: quarantine stuff, and you know, Janna hasn't filmed as many
Speaker 1: things or we haven't had to travel as much. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm big on like the kid's routine and
Speaker 1: them not getting taken out of their routine that much,
Speaker 1: especially with them getting a little older. And you know,
Speaker 1: Janna so used to traveling, especially with Jolie. She was
Speaker 1: our little you know, our travel bug, like she came
Speaker 1: everywhere with us. Um you know, and Jason was the
Speaker 1: same too when he was an infant. But now with
Speaker 1: the kids getting older and when things were normal, you know,
Speaker 1: Juliet soccer, she has dance, she has this. You know,
Speaker 1: if Janna has to go film something, I don't want
Speaker 1: to just have the drop of the hat take the
Speaker 1: kids completely out of what they have going on to
Speaker 1: go just sit somewhere for a couple of weeks. But
Speaker 1: I also don't want Janna to be without a family.
Speaker 1: So those are the biggest things, especially once like Julie
Speaker 1: starts like school, school, you know, that's going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge I think for us, UM, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, the difference is like you know, when you
Speaker 1: travel somewhere, like you're not just gonna go sit somewhere,
Speaker 1: because like it's now that the kids are getting older.
Speaker 1: I've talked to so many people that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: have traveled with their parents and what they get to
Speaker 1: see and experience different cultures in different states and different countries.
Speaker 1: You know, they say it's it was the best experience
Speaker 1: as a kid to be able to travel with their
Speaker 1: you know, they're working parents. So I feel like, yes,
Speaker 1: I can understand where it would might be hard, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, the fact that they could go
Speaker 1: experience new places, I think is a gift that like
Speaker 1: I wish that I could have done with my parents
Speaker 1: or my mom or my dad, um, so that I
Speaker 1: could have seen more things and experience different cultures and
Speaker 1: um be more whatever that word is like, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: just would have traveled more to see more things. I
Speaker 1: think as a kid, that's stuff that you can't you know,
Speaker 1: you can't. I mean, that's just it's fine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You learn things. You you get to see other places,
Speaker 1: and you better to do when you're a kid, you know,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, of course you know. I got to
Speaker 1: go with you to work one time, to the same
Speaker 1: and I got to experience New Iberia Louisiana. That was like, sincerely,
Speaker 1: that was an experience I think about every day, and
Speaker 1: it really was exciting. I couldn't imagine being your child
Speaker 1: and getting to see all these different places. And and
Speaker 1: also when you watch mom work, you have such a
Speaker 1: cool job, and uh, you know, it's just such a
Speaker 1: cool thing to be around. Uh. Who's per personality does
Speaker 1: each of the kids have or are closest to. I
Speaker 1: think Jace has my like love side, and Julie has um.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like both kids are like jas
Speaker 1: has more of like my cuddly, very kind of needy personality,
Speaker 1: and then Julie has Mike's like now I'm good, like
Speaker 1: I don't need affection like whatever. But then I feel
Speaker 1: like she's got like you know, um, her independence too
Speaker 1: from Mike and and then she's got my sass. What
Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah, I mean there's you know, parts
Speaker 1: of them that are both like us. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the biggest things are what Janna said, and then
Speaker 1: also it just comes down to the biology of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, Julie is a girl like Jase's your typical
Speaker 1: boy like jumping off couches, smashing trucks together, wrestling, all
Speaker 1: of that. So it's you know, there, they're there, they're
Speaker 1: being themselves and it's just awesome to see. So the
Speaker 1: kids are back at school earlier. I'm not sure about Ja's,
Speaker 1: but at least Julie, I know it is like going
Speaker 1: to school in person right now? Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Julia is? What was that? Was that a hard decision
Speaker 1: to make in terms of like there's a question here,
Speaker 1: how did you come to the decision to send your
Speaker 1: kids back to school? And I'm assuming that means because
Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Yeah, I mean it's one of those
Speaker 1: things like, you know, because Julie technically goes to a daycare,
Speaker 1: they had to stay open, So we could have sent
Speaker 1: Julie the whole time if we wanted to but we
Speaker 1: took her out in March. We didn't send her back
Speaker 1: to what August. Yeah, And so we had the whole
Speaker 1: spring and summer with her, with both kids, and it
Speaker 1: was just for us, you know, we were still wanting
Speaker 1: to live our lives, and we're like, look, the kids
Speaker 1: need school. We tried schooling ourselves. We're not teachers, and
Speaker 1: you know they need it's it's it was only fair
Speaker 1: to Jolie at that point. It was fair to the
Speaker 1: kids to have that social interaction, to play with friends,
Speaker 1: to to learn, and so it almost got to the
Speaker 1: point where we felt like it would be selfish if
Speaker 1: we kept them home any longer. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: it is kind of freaking me out because Tennessee is
Speaker 1: now the highest state of coronavirus new cases. So I
Speaker 1: am starting to be like, maybe we should lock down
Speaker 1: again because it's kind of freaking me out. I can't imagine,
Speaker 1: like being a young kid and having to do your
Speaker 1: classes like on the computer, you know, Like I had
Speaker 1: a hard enough time like being social and making friends,
Speaker 1: like going to school normally, I can imagine having to
Speaker 1: do that virtually. Oh my god, yeah, do your do
Speaker 1: Jolie and James get along with each other, do they
Speaker 1: play really well, and oh my gosh, they're the best.
Speaker 1: They are best buds until they're not until they're not.
Speaker 1: But but that's what's funny to see. I mean, they
Speaker 1: will be so cute one second, and then Jas will
Speaker 1: be like bodies trying to you know, jump off the couch,
Speaker 1: arm onto Jolie and wrestle with her, and Joelie will
Speaker 1: start crying and Jas will viciously pulled her hair and
Speaker 1: it's it's so funny to see though. It's funny, but
Speaker 1: it's also sad, like they're they're you know, they're so cute,
Speaker 1: but then it's the next you know, five minutes later, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jason is pulling her hair trying to wrestle with her.
Speaker 1: They're just typical siblings. Man. It's it's just it's awesome.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be so close when they get older too.
Speaker 1: It's a cool thing to see. Uh, let's see we're
Speaker 1: a great moderator. By the way, Easton here on the
Speaker 1: stereo app. Thanks for doing this Christmas even all got
Speaker 1: you're working on a holiday. Thanks guys. You know they
Speaker 1: always say when you get to uh work with your heroes,
Speaker 1: it's never work. It's just living my dream right now.
Speaker 1: I'm and I hope, I'm hope I'm doing a good
Speaker 1: job here. I usually just turn the microphones on enough.
Speaker 1: But let's see, got some more questions here on on
Speaker 1: the stereo app. Mike, would you ever rejoin the NFL?
Speaker 1: Sure if they'd have me. Yeah, no, My my body's
Speaker 1: done and there's no market for a thirty three year
Speaker 1: old retiree. I mean it'd be cool to see, like
Speaker 1: like a stunt casting kind of thing, though, like we're
Speaker 1: bringing them out of retirement. Michael Cousins coming back. Sure,
Speaker 1: I would. We'll need the next year to to train. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, actually some of you guys talked about earlier
Speaker 1: that I was thinking about when you did when you dance,
Speaker 1: when you took because you said you took like a
Speaker 1: dance class together, right, mm hmm. Did you feel that
Speaker 1: your football training helped with that? Yeah? I think general
Speaker 1: athleticism will help with that, you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: think it will definitely have I think that's why part
Speaker 1: of why Jana did so well, because she's she's just
Speaker 1: she is an athlete, you know. She I skated for
Speaker 1: a long time, and that stating an athletic sports. I
Speaker 1: never took it away from you. Yeah that's cheer leading. Um,
Speaker 1: but now if you watch cheer on Netflix. Come on now, hey,
Speaker 1: we have a couple of live live questions. Who were
Speaker 1: your role models growing up? Or your couple goals or
Speaker 1: your relationship goals? M Do you have a role model
Speaker 1: grown up? Um? Don't have a role model growing up? Uh?
Speaker 1: I think it was like Diane Sawyer because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be an anger woman. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I you know, I had like favorite players or whatever,
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I really had like a
Speaker 1: role model that you know. Now I look back and
Speaker 1: I've taken the the positive things I've inherited from my
Speaker 1: from my dad, and so I look at him as
Speaker 1: a role model in aspects. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: can't really don't give anything. What are some of your
Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions for? So? I read a book called
Speaker 1: The Happiness Project, and it was really cool because they
Speaker 1: basically said, setting new Year's resolutions, you're you're basically setting
Speaker 1: yourself up to fail. Um, but if you and like
Speaker 1: and how like, it was like they rated people doing it,
Speaker 1: But if you did it in monthly increment so like January,
Speaker 1: I want to swear less. February I wanna you know,
Speaker 1: eat better. In March, I really want to be softer
Speaker 1: and kinder to myself. And you know, over time, like
Speaker 1: you want to carry those other ones into each other month.
Speaker 1: But like, just setting like one goal for that one month,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be easier. It's gonna be easier for you
Speaker 1: to attain that goal because you're not just like and
Speaker 1: to like I don't know, I mean like if you
Speaker 1: look back at your list, but like I look back
Speaker 1: on my list almost every month to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what what have I kept putting back on the backburner
Speaker 1: of my goals this year? Um? Because it's easy to
Speaker 1: write your goals on a sheet of paper or tell
Speaker 1: yourself it, But if you're not gonna look at it
Speaker 1: and see it and remind yourself of what you set
Speaker 1: out to do, you're never going to fulfill what you
Speaker 1: want to do. Um. And you know there's things on
Speaker 1: my list that I you know, there's only one thing
Speaker 1: I didn't do this year on my list, and you
Speaker 1: know it was something that I decided to put, you know,
Speaker 1: to to my next year. But to be like the
Speaker 1: top of what I'm gonna do because I didn't fulfill
Speaker 1: everything I wanted to do. But I think it is
Speaker 1: like writing things out and for me, like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I have my work goals and then my personal goals,
Speaker 1: and I think just I'm gonna keep my own personal
Speaker 1: ones to myself. But um, I have I have very
Speaker 1: high goals. What about you? Um, you know I gotta
Speaker 1: write them out? I don't. I don't. I have them
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. But I think I
Speaker 1: got to look back on my list. Is one thing
Speaker 1: I didn't do is look back on my list enough.
Speaker 1: But also looking to see you both are so talented.
Speaker 1: What are some hidden talents that you don't know about?
Speaker 1: I can carty and I can do the splits, which
Speaker 1: I feel like for thirty seven year old is pretty
Speaker 1: darn good. Um, don't a great swimmer. You're a great cook,
Speaker 1: but everyone knows that you are a good swimmer, strong summer.
Speaker 1: I would drown you. See your back on the clock
Speaker 1: with us. You're on the stereo app. All right, we
Speaker 1: got we got some more questions coming in from social Jane.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry when you say you can do the splits?
Speaker 1: Is it like the like uh was it Jean Claude
Speaker 1: being damn like straight out or like in front and
Speaker 1: behind you? Which way? Well, front and behind. I can't
Speaker 1: do this straight out. I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 1: able to do that, that one. It's always just been
Speaker 1: so I guess that's like kind of cheating. But no, no,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's that's the splits in my mind.
Speaker 1: It's still the splits. Right. M uh let's see. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm being told you didn't get to them. What were
Speaker 1: the resolutions you didn't get to? Jannah? Can you share
Speaker 1: the one you put off for next year? Yes? Um,
Speaker 1: I never I really wanted to do a blog, um,
Speaker 1: and I I I just I didn't do it. And
Speaker 1: I'm bummed that I didn't do that. Um. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start putting the things that I want to do
Speaker 1: at the forefront and um and make sure that I
Speaker 1: everything else I did. Um, but I that was the one.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I like to write things down, even
Speaker 1: though I'm not the best writer, but I like to
Speaker 1: just kind of write out things and um, have a
Speaker 1: safe place to express things because I feel like on
Speaker 1: Instagram it's really hard to write right certain things because
Speaker 1: you get a lot of negative feedback. But if I
Speaker 1: have a blog, it's kind of like hopefully the only
Speaker 1: hopefully people that like me, we'll just go to the
Speaker 1: blog and not that people that hate on me. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, can it can be like a nicer
Speaker 1: environment to share vulnerable things. So it would be like
Speaker 1: like a general kind of like place to share your
Speaker 1: thoughts as opposed to like like it won't be just
Speaker 1: about parenting or just about your marriage, like everything related
Speaker 1: to Janna, everything and everything, anything and everything. And that
Speaker 1: brings me to my next question. I'm actually holding my
Speaker 1: hand a copy of The Good Fight, which is an
Speaker 1: amazing book everyone should check out by Jenna Clamer Michael Cosson.
Speaker 1: Is there going to be another book? That's the plan.
Speaker 1: That's the plan. We're just you know, we're working on
Speaker 1: the topic and how we want to structure things and
Speaker 1: go from there. Yeah. I mean, I've gotten a bunch
Speaker 1: of ideas and I hope that you know, we can
Speaker 1: sit down and come together and and you know, work
Speaker 1: on it. So we'll see fingers crossed The Good Fight
Speaker 1: round to come and do a bestsellers list near you.
Speaker 1: Let's hey, what are some couples getaways? That you guys
Speaker 1: have done you really enjoyed, and you'd recommend to some
Speaker 1: parents that need a break. Um. I mean I think
Speaker 1: there's a place. Um, we just went to Cabo. We
Speaker 1: went to pedrogal Um Kaboul is a diamond resorts property
Speaker 1: that's really nice. Um. And if you want to just
Speaker 1: do something local, there's a place in Tennessee called BlackBerry
Speaker 1: Farms that's all farm to table, really good food. Um.
Speaker 1: And honestly, like for me, like just you know, you
Speaker 1: can just get away anywhere with Airbnb. I mean pick
Speaker 1: a place, get on Airbnb and and just get away. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of other places. I think you know,
Speaker 1: a staycation is highly underrated. Um. You know, even in
Speaker 1: your city or or a nearby city that's a close
Speaker 1: to travel to and just get away and just so
Speaker 1: you're waking up somewhere different together and just doing something different.
Speaker 1: What's one word of advice you guys can share for
Speaker 1: a long happy marriage. One word? One word? But that's
Speaker 1: all you got patients, Um, Empathy, grace, communication. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: mom would be grace that. Yeah. So when this is
Speaker 1: a question that came in when one of you is
Speaker 1: in trouble, who gets over the silent treatment? First? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? I'm I'm sorry, I'm trying to kind
Speaker 1: of worth this out with it. What they mean? I
Speaker 1: you do give each other the silent treatment? Like do
Speaker 1: you do? You there? You guys like shut down when
Speaker 1: you're when you're upset at the other one. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we both do. And when that happens, which of
Speaker 1: you is fastest to break that? Probably? Yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: usually me that's in trouble. So usually the culprit is
Speaker 1: the one that needs to break the silence. So it's
Speaker 1: the easiest spot to start waving the white flag. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. Um. You know, I I personally have just
Speaker 1: learned so much about about marriage from you guys, and
Speaker 1: like working on this show has been like just a
Speaker 1: master class I think in in conflict management and listening
Speaker 1: and patience. And I just want to thank you guys
Speaker 1: as we end the end of the year here or uh,
Speaker 1: for for all the you know, I can't imagine the
Speaker 1: thousands of other couples you're helping, but just I'm just
Speaker 1: one case. This has been I just appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: sharing your your journey and sharing these things that you've
Speaker 1: learned along the way. It's helping everybody else than thanks Easter.
Speaker 1: Appreciative buddy. Uh. Let's see, it's not always easy, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's right. Uh, you know you got to keep
Speaker 1: on fighting the good fight because you know, if it
Speaker 1: was easy, everyone would do it, and uh not everybody
Speaker 1: does it, that's for sure, not every h So you
Speaker 1: know you mentioned on the show the other uh last week,
Speaker 1: I think, um, that you were thinking about maybe surrogacy
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go for baby number three? Uh? Is
Speaker 1: that's is that something as I have looked into, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about about like how would you react
Speaker 1: over someone else like carrying your child? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: it's something that we we've just kind of thrown at
Speaker 1: the board, just talking out all sorts of options if
Speaker 1: we want to end up having a third And I
Speaker 1: think it's you know, you gotta weigh the options, and
Speaker 1: you know, for us, it's it's in the possible equation.
Speaker 1: But I have my you know, right, my reservations about
Speaker 1: it as well, are my hesitations about it as well, Um,
Speaker 1: just you know, not feeling as the dad. We already
Speaker 1: don't feel as connected because we're not carrying the child, right,
Speaker 1: so there's not that initial maternal bond like a mother
Speaker 1: and a child have. And so now you know, as
Speaker 1: the dad, will feel even more kind of displaced because
Speaker 1: now we're not even able to be next to the
Speaker 1: child on a regular basis and talk to the child.
Speaker 1: You would think, though, that that would help you, like
Speaker 1: because we're both like we're like doing it together where
Speaker 1: it's like we're both like going through it and being like,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Yeah, I do, but
Speaker 1: I think i'd be closer to you. But I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing it to to your to like your connection or
Speaker 1: like the mother's connection. I'm I'm just kind of saying
Speaker 1: like in general, like now I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: see it at all or not at all, but you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I get what you're saying. Would you like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly how it works, but like when
Speaker 1: you like hang out with the with the surrogate, like
Speaker 1: I'd be inclined to just be like macking down sushi
Speaker 1: and drinking, like you know, doing all the stuff you
Speaker 1: can't do when you're pregnant, like so that that, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's an attractive thing, right, I mean, the only thing
Speaker 1: that's really attractive to me is the fact that I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be puking the entire time, and I would, like,
Speaker 1: who knows if I'd be able to carry it, you know,
Speaker 1: like if I would have another miscarriage again. So it's
Speaker 1: just and I'm being sure, having wine is a nice thing,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was easy to give it up
Speaker 1: when when I was pregnant because the thought of wine
Speaker 1: tasted disgusting, which is not something that would happen for me.
Speaker 1: I got another live question here at East Do either
Speaker 1: of you have any crazy holiday stories, like anything that
Speaker 1: went wrong or any holiday blunders or forgotten things. Um,
Speaker 1: The only thing that I can remember when when I
Speaker 1: was five years old, those around Joy's age, I was
Speaker 1: playing this little Mermaid game with my uncle Polly, and
Speaker 1: I threw up all over my red dress. So that
Speaker 1: was like one of my early Christmas memories. And I
Speaker 1: just remember being so upset and apologizing to my uncle
Speaker 1: and saying sorry. I don't know if I have I
Speaker 1: still have this DEVI memory when I was a kid though,
Speaker 1: and it was snowstorm in Virginia and we're coming back
Speaker 1: from my grandfather's house, which was just a couple of
Speaker 1: alls away we couldn't even make it home in our car.
Speaker 1: We had to park our car at like this gas
Speaker 1: station and then walk home and like a foot of snow.
Speaker 1: And I remember just doing that when I was shoot,
Speaker 1: I was probably Jolly's age. Yeah, good old days of snow. Mhm. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: looking towards what's a guest you've wanted to have on
Speaker 1: the podcast but you have it yet? I think it'd
Speaker 1: be fun to have like Dak Shepherd beyond the podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: And I've always wanted to do his podcast too, but
Speaker 1: I just like how open he is about his struggles
Speaker 1: with addictions and marriage and stuff. So I just you know,
Speaker 1: I would love to have him on. Yeah, Dak Shepherd
Speaker 1: would definitely be one. Um. And I would love to
Speaker 1: talk to a little Dickie as well, so random about
Speaker 1: what just talk to him? He I just talked to
Speaker 1: him because I just think we've had great conversations with him.
Speaker 1: You do know our podcast is about relationships and Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it'd be great start a new podcast. It's going
Speaker 1: to be his own podcast past the micro Yeah. Uh
Speaker 1: and Canada, We're all we're all asking again. This is
Speaker 1: winding down live on the stereo app. Thanks every way
Speaker 1: for listening. But Jana, we we got to know when
Speaker 1: are we getting new music from you? As soon as
Speaker 1: I find a producer to produce that. Um. I have
Speaker 1: a few songs I really want to put out there,
Speaker 1: but I just got to find the right producer and
Speaker 1: it's on my to do list for the new year.
Speaker 1: I've loved everything you've put out over the last you know,
Speaker 1: the last couple of releases you've done. Those are some
Speaker 1: kick ass songs. Have you been writing during the quarantine?
Speaker 1: Um No, I've I only wrote one song. Um. I
Speaker 1: wish now looking back, I would have written more. But
Speaker 1: again I do enjoy like I did enjoy the quarantine
Speaker 1: time just because I was being able to be like
Speaker 1: really present with the kids. Um. But I I definitely
Speaker 1: have some great inspiration to write some new songs. Um.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to one to be able to
Speaker 1: write more songs. Alright, everybody, get get get your iTunes
Speaker 1: saved button ready. I think we got time for like
Speaker 1: one more They're easty, and then we're gonna part ways
Speaker 1: for Christmas eve festivities. All right, again, this is on
Speaker 1: the Live on the Stereo app. We've had a great time, Hey, Janna.
Speaker 1: If Mike was asked to do Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 1: how would that make you feel? Um, I would want
Speaker 1: to pick his partner because you know, um things canna
Speaker 1: be kind of scanned us not dancing with the stars,
Speaker 1: so um. But no, I mean I would totally support him.
Speaker 1: Um And I yeah, I think he would do amazing
Speaker 1: on it. All right, I love it. Uh, but I
Speaker 1: hope that happens. Um. Well, it's uh it is Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think we're we're getting ready to wrap this,
Speaker 1: wrap this up like a present for everyone to open.
Speaker 1: And uh, I hope Santa brings everybody what they want
Speaker 1: down the chimney this year. And I hope you guys
Speaker 1: have a great time with your family. This has been
Speaker 1: so much fun. Thanks for letting me hang out with
Speaker 1: the party today. Thanks for moderate Eastern. We know it's
Speaker 1: not an easy job, but we hope you have a
Speaker 1: fantastic Christmas and all the listeners a fantastic Christmas as well.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, man, we're looking forward to a new year.
Speaker 1: And do you and your wife do you know what
Speaker 1: you're guys are getting each other for Christmas? Or do
Speaker 1: you guys try to keep a secret we keep it
Speaker 1: a secret. It's it's definitely a secret. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what she got me, and hopefully she does not
Speaker 1: know what I got her. But we like that surprise
Speaker 1: and Christmas morning. I love it. It's all about surprise.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I got you? Mike? Nope, I
Speaker 1: do not. Never know with you. She's a professional actress.
Speaker 1: I don't know you can hide it. I wouldn't really
Speaker 1: say professional, but you know, do you get paid to
Speaker 1: do something? I don't know what that al Right, guys,
Speaker 1: well marry Christmas Eve, and we hope everyone has a
Speaker 1: fantastic and healthy holiday. Goodbye, goodbye, d later ethany h
Speaker 1: my friend. Oh my goodness, I'm so I just love you.
Speaker 1: I'm your album cover. First of all, can we just
Speaker 1: talk about how beautiful you look like? You look like
Speaker 1: you're coming out of a window and like Tuscany or
Speaker 1: something like just done. I was coming out of amazing
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we had a good team that day.
Speaker 1: It was it was a great photographer Juliana Vicore and
Speaker 1: um just an amazing hair and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know what happens. You wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning and you're like somebody can like, Oh, I've
Speaker 1: been a window in Tuscany. I remember Um Tree Hill days. You.
Speaker 1: I mean you always loved Christmas music. Um, even when
Speaker 1: we had that Christmas party. I mean you were singing
Speaker 1: the Christmas songs and you have such a beautiful voice. So, um,
Speaker 1: I mean Snow is out now, so you guys can
Speaker 1: get the album. What's your favorite song on the album
Speaker 1: that sang? Um? I'm kind of torn. I've got two favorites. Um.
Speaker 1: One of them is a duet that I do with
Speaker 1: my friend Anthony Evans, and it's for It's kind of
Speaker 1: like if you like baby. It's called Outside I think
Speaker 1: it was. It's kind of a another take on that
Speaker 1: kind of a song. Um, it's still but it's still
Speaker 1: in that fifties, forties, fifties scene. Um. And then the
Speaker 1: other one is called Rejoice. It just feels like a
Speaker 1: big church song to me. So I love it so good.
Speaker 1: Are these original songs, Bethany that you have on the album? Yes?
Speaker 1: So I did four original and um two covers. We
Speaker 1: covered jingle Bells and my Favorite Things, which is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite songs, and uh, and the rest were
Speaker 1: just songs that I had written. There were two that
Speaker 1: I had to finish, but I had them started and
Speaker 1: then others. My Christmas with You was from a play
Speaker 1: that I had written several years ago, and um, snow
Speaker 1: was just the thing I wrote this year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that it just kind of came together really fast. Um,
Speaker 1: which is why we only released it like four days ago,
Speaker 1: because I'm so last minute. I was like the day
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving and I went, it's Christmas time. Now I
Speaker 1: make some Christmas music. Is writing a Christmas song? Is
Speaker 1: there any more added stress or difficulty to that because of,
Speaker 1: you know, it being Christmas time? And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like Christmas songs are so nostalgic, nostalgic, and
Speaker 1: they last, you know, fifty plus years. It's like, here's
Speaker 1: an original. Yeah, they're good, They're good. Yeah. That For me,
Speaker 1: I find it a little easier because I grew up
Speaker 1: with the musical theater background, and so much of that
Speaker 1: includes American standards, which is that jazzy sort of sound
Speaker 1: that you hear in all the classics. I'll be Home
Speaker 1: for Christmas, White Christmas, the Christmas song, um silver Bells,
Speaker 1: you know, all of those tunes that if you take
Speaker 1: the lyrics out, the music still stands up by itself.
Speaker 1: It still holds up, which is why people are still
Speaker 1: listening to those songs a hundred years later. Um. And
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know if some of the modern songs
Speaker 1: that have been written will also stand the test of
Speaker 1: time in that way. And I think there are some
Speaker 1: that will. Um. But I try and write in that
Speaker 1: vein because it was really natural to me. So in
Speaker 1: a way, writing Christmas songs, Um, this is a roundabout
Speaker 1: way of explaining this. I hope you're following it. In
Speaker 1: a way, writing Christmas songs is a lot easier because
Speaker 1: I'm so comfortable with the American standards sound from the forties,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like to no one can really
Speaker 1: say a Christmas song sucks, like like that song sucks.
Speaker 1: Like They'll be like, oh, it's just not I just
Speaker 1: don't like it. It's just not my taste. But I
Speaker 1: think people just have like high expectations. Like I remember
Speaker 1: when Taylor Swift came out with her Christmas Tree front
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, man, like I was wanting like
Speaker 1: all I want for Christmas or saying to tell me
Speaker 1: like kind of vibe, and so I was like bummed
Speaker 1: because you're not like, so it's still Christmas? Are you
Speaker 1: so much? You're happy? Yeah? I have heard that one, Jannah.
Speaker 1: What is the vibe on that? I mean I think
Speaker 1: it was just a one. She just released one song,
Speaker 1: so it was like, um, because she grew up on
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree farm. I mean it's cute, but I
Speaker 1: was just like I think I was expecting like a bop,
Speaker 1: you know, and it wasn't like it didn't bought me,
Speaker 1: Like it didn't bought me in the face, like I
Speaker 1: really wanted to bop. Have you put out Christmas music? Yeah, Jana,
Speaker 1: I put out one song like a million years ago
Speaker 1: when I was on a label. But um, I mean
Speaker 1: actually that's like my dream is to do a Christmas album.
Speaker 1: It would you do a song with me? Though, Like
Speaker 1: can we do a duet together? Like let's let's let's
Speaker 1: write it girl on girl, let's write it. Do it?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean Christmas Love Story, Christmas song. No.
Speaker 1: I would like, yeah, next year that would be that
Speaker 1: would be a total dreamboat scenario because I said I
Speaker 1: want to do it this year. But I mean with
Speaker 1: Quarantine and I mean you did it, you got it done, girl,
Speaker 1: and snow is out now. So I'm like super excited
Speaker 1: because I listened to the ones that isn't hit the
Speaker 1: top ten. Um two days ago we hit the top
Speaker 1: ten New Christmas albums were right under Maria. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: And where are you living again? Right now? I am
Speaker 1: on a ranch. I'm here in California. I found a
Speaker 1: little place just outside of l A. And UM got
Speaker 1: some horses. I think I'm going to get a baby goat,
Speaker 1: I think. So there was this baby goat. I was
Speaker 1: out shoveling manure the other day and we had to
Speaker 1: go dump on manure at a local ranch because I
Speaker 1: don't what am I gonna do with like tons of manure?
Speaker 1: So we dumped it, you know, we spent all days
Speaker 1: shoveling dumped it. And then I see in the corner
Speaker 1: there's this little it's kind of a collective ranch where
Speaker 1: people have their chickens and their goat and their horses.
Speaker 1: And so I went to the cage in the back
Speaker 1: and this mama goat had just had four babies like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes before. I mean she was still leading the goat.
Speaker 1: She was licking all the you know, everything off the goats.
Speaker 1: It was like really cute, and there was one in
Speaker 1: the corner that was just like crumpled up and dying
Speaker 1: and couldn't get the utters. So I got to go
Speaker 1: in there and I grabbed the baby goat and I
Speaker 1: like stuck it on the mom's eat and was like
Speaker 1: squeezing the goat's milk into its mouth and the colostom
Speaker 1: and making her it was alive. And now I'm attached
Speaker 1: to this. You have to keep the goat. You're a farmer,
Speaker 1: now you're a farm girl. I mean, you've got to
Speaker 1: keep the goat. It's your baby, I know. Do you
Speaker 1: have any animals? Do you guys have urine Nashville? Right,
Speaker 1: there's two dogs. We had chickens, but our friends farm
Speaker 1: down the street. Yeah. We apparently we're not allowed to
Speaker 1: have a coupe with our h o A people, So
Speaker 1: we're just thinking about I was thinking about getting chickens
Speaker 1: this week. You recommend chickens, you know, I would because
Speaker 1: I'm the fact that they can lay eggs and stuff
Speaker 1: is great, and we eat eggs all the time, so
Speaker 1: it's save on that. But also, I mean, and they're
Speaker 1: like little garbage disposals any like fruit rhymes like anything
Speaker 1: food lies throw out into the coupe and they eat it.
Speaker 1: They eat everything there. I think they're I think, and
Speaker 1: they're so cute as little chicks. They're so cute. But
Speaker 1: how old is your your kid? Now? He's nine, she's nine,
Speaker 1: almost ten? Um, are you done done? No? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's great. She's having a baby not today, You're like,
Speaker 1: right now, just a baby goat is all I'm gonna have.
Speaker 1: Are good for me right now? Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: love it. And what are you guys doing for Christmas? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: Maria's actually with your dad for Christmas this year. So
Speaker 1: I'm just here, I'm like here on the ranch by myself.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of just redoing her bedroom. It's kind of
Speaker 1: convenient for me with the fact that everybody's a lot
Speaker 1: of people are staying home right now necessarily so uh
Speaker 1: so I've got a lot of friends in town that
Speaker 1: are not traveling to see their family and all that.
Speaker 1: So there's we've got a kind of a group of
Speaker 1: misfits that are going to get together. How do you
Speaker 1: how do you handle because there you know those I've
Speaker 1: got a lot of We've got a lot of relationship,
Speaker 1: a lot of mamas on here that you know are
Speaker 1: not um with their significant other husband. How do you
Speaker 1: deal with holidays time and maybe not having the holiday
Speaker 1: this year with your girl? I mean, I love being
Speaker 1: with her, but it's twenty four set, like it's all
Speaker 1: me all the time. I have full I'm she's it's
Speaker 1: all I'm like the only parents basically in many ways. Um, so, honestly,
Speaker 1: like it's really nice to it's so, you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I get like I feel that though, because sometimes like
Speaker 1: I'm like, I kind of see the other side of it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, kind of seems nice sometimes, but
Speaker 1: then the flip side of it is like when you
Speaker 1: do become just the only parent, you know, where it
Speaker 1: can be hard because it's usually the mom that has
Speaker 1: like most of the time. Yeah, it is, It's true.
Speaker 1: I mean there's definitely a lot of challenges that come
Speaker 1: with that. But I love being a mom and she's
Speaker 1: a great kid and makes it easy and we have
Speaker 1: a good relationship. So um, but yeah, to be able
Speaker 1: to just have a break and have a movie calling
Speaker 1: my name, Nobody needs me to make lunch, nobody's knocking
Speaker 1: on my door, nobody needs anything. Just it's like what
Speaker 1: it was like before a kid. Nobody needs anything for me.
Speaker 1: I have no responsibilities for two weeks. It's so bizarre,
Speaker 1: but I kind of love it. So I'm just painting
Speaker 1: the house and you know, I'm redoing her room and
Speaker 1: taking care of the horses and the dogs and just
Speaker 1: being I'm goofing off, you know, just being a goat mom,
Speaker 1: just being a goat mom picking up poop. You have
Speaker 1: a movie out right now, too, don't you blind well,
Speaker 1: yea blind Fire is out and Star Chrism is also
Speaker 1: out with that's on Hallmarks. We have to wait for
Speaker 1: the reruns on that, which, by the way, you were
Speaker 1: with Victor, which is Chantelle. So it was Sean Tell
Speaker 1: so your sister Quinn it was now her like real
Speaker 1: life boyfriend, which I think is really cute because you
Speaker 1: guys were like making out and you're like, hey, this
Speaker 1: is like my best friends. It's like, you know, boyfriend.
Speaker 1: I know, it's not funny, it's just small town. I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of like part for the course, And then,
Speaker 1: isn't it It really was? I was like, wow, this
Speaker 1: is I mean, hey, if there's anybody to make out with,
Speaker 1: like someone like mis will be someone that you trust,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know we weren't really making out.
Speaker 1: There was like Hallmarkets kiss and it was a Hallmark kiss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not like we're ripping each other's clothes off. But
Speaker 1: even when I have to do things like that, like
Speaker 1: in Pierson, there's just such a as long as both
Speaker 1: people come in with really clean energy and it's just
Speaker 1: like work, it's not. It's not really it's not like
Speaker 1: you go home you're like, oh that was that was steamy.
Speaker 1: There was twelve people watching, and no way, I hope
Speaker 1: to say. It's a world I don't understand that heart
Speaker 1: isn't hard for you, as like knowing that your wife
Speaker 1: is like sometimes like, how are you to tell about
Speaker 1: this last Door Lifetime movie? Well, when I the thing is, fortunately,
Speaker 1: since we've been married for the past five six years,
Speaker 1: she's only done like Hallmark Lifetime kisses. So when she
Speaker 1: does whenever she does a movie or series that has
Speaker 1: something a little bit more intense, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: different story. Daddy's not gonna want to know. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be there on set that day. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna watch it when it comes out. Well, it's funny
Speaker 1: because this last Lifetime when I had like more of
Speaker 1: a longer, steamy, er kiss and he was like, that's
Speaker 1: a little long. I was like, sorry, oh no, And
Speaker 1: there's what two or three kisses? Yeah, there was a
Speaker 1: lot in this one. Yeah. She's like, oh, there's just
Speaker 1: one kiss I'm watching. I'm like, okay, that's one. There's
Speaker 1: another one five minutes later, another. Okay, you're just kissing
Speaker 1: the whole movie. Get okay. So funny, it's I wonder
Speaker 1: like because I don't know what that's like. I've been
Speaker 1: acting since I was twelve years old, you know, kissing,
Speaker 1: like it's just become a such a natural part of
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like, is that like that can
Speaker 1: I say curse words? On this show? Us up? Like
Speaker 1: the fact that we're like I could kiss anybody and
Speaker 1: walk away and be fine. It's all about compartmentalization. But
Speaker 1: I think it is because it's like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember even doing scenes with the COLLETTI like we'd be
Speaker 1: rolling around and bad making out and then they call Cotton.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you gonna have the Caesar salad for
Speaker 1: lunch today? Like or do you think you're gonna? Like you?
Speaker 1: Because when you add the shrimp on top. It's really good, like,
Speaker 1: but it's like I don't think, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: because because it's just work. And even like with this
Speaker 1: last movie to like Kiss and Dudes, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just work and you go home to
Speaker 1: your reality. That's just none of that's reality. It's just work.
Speaker 1: And our work us involves lip blocking a few times
Speaker 1: or yeah, dry humping. It's a real naughty show. You
Speaker 1: have to have like an inner monitor that's really keeping
Speaker 1: it clean because yeah, a lot of people do fall
Speaker 1: in love on set because they're having problems with their
Speaker 1: partner or they're like, you know, they're single, and then
Speaker 1: it's because you've got somebody that you a lot of
Speaker 1: cuddily time with, and then you start to imagine that
Speaker 1: it is real even what's not so, I mean, you
Speaker 1: do have to like have a good inner guard and
Speaker 1: boundaries and keep it clean. You know, you go in
Speaker 1: everybody's just keeping it clean. Oh yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: because if not, I mean, you spend so much time
Speaker 1: with you spend like fifteen hours a day with this person.
Speaker 1: You're just like telling your deepest, darkest and then you're
Speaker 1: like you're so connected and the thing is too for
Speaker 1: Jane and I, you know, she always wants me on set,
Speaker 1: and so I try to go early on in the
Speaker 1: process just to not to mark my territory, but just
Speaker 1: to get comfortable myself with everybody and and get to
Speaker 1: know them and know them as people and human beings
Speaker 1: and what they like and don't like and so that,
Speaker 1: and then just having boundaries with you know, you're not
Speaker 1: going to read lines in each other's trailer by yourself
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: healthy boundaries. But you know what is healthy? Christmas music
Speaker 1: and Enjoy has an album out. It's called Snow. You
Speaker 1: guys can get it now, um and rewatch her on
Speaker 1: five Star Christmas on Hallmark on Christmas Day, so check
Speaker 1: your local listings, um, and get her albums Snow, it's
Speaker 1: so good originals and a few classics. Um. Bethany, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on. Thank you so much. Thanks you guys,
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks for coming on. Bethany, thank you well,
Speaker 1: that was fun talking to Bethany. And of course Eastern
Speaker 1: and Easton. OK, we love him. It's Christmas Eve. Oh
Speaker 1: we have to go open a present yep. So every
Speaker 1: kid gets a present. Every adult gets a present. I
Speaker 1: was just cleaning myself as one of the kids. I
Speaker 1: was like, yep, I sure do. I'm so excited. Can
Speaker 1: we get to pick them? Well, no, you can pick
Speaker 1: the one you want to give me. I'll pick the
Speaker 1: one I want to give you, because like you don't
Speaker 1: want to pick, like you're like you're the present. The one.
Speaker 1: Then what movie are we gonna watch tonight? It's a
Speaker 1: wonderful life. I'm so excited. We hope all of you
Speaker 1: guys have the most amazing Christmas. We know it looks
Speaker 1: a little different this year, but just know that you
Speaker 1: were loved and you were cherished, and we just hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy relaxing holiday and the biggest presents that you
Speaker 1: have are the people you're with, are the people you're
Speaker 1: talking to and listening to see what I mean. We'll
Speaker 1: be back Monday for an all new, very exciting episode.